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Mysterious shortness of breath: What has helped you?
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@tammyjbell- Hello. I can hear how scared you are. It's always shocking when we go to take a breath, something that we have relied upon all our lives, and have trouble doing it!
Is your heart fluttering or pounding, or beating after than it was? Stress, exercise, medications, a medical condition can trigger them. Although heart palpitations can be very worrisome, they're usually harmless. Although they don't seem harmless at the time.
When you say heart palpitations what do you mean? Has anything changed in your life to bring this on that you can think of? What kind of doctor did you see?
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I have seen 3 cardiologist. First one said I had LVH, mildly dialated left atrium and Trace tricuspid regurgitation. The 2nd one revealed no LVH, no dialated atrium. There was I say was because I believe in God and His healing. They said I have(had) TRACE tricuspid, mitral and pulmonic regurgitation. I was told by the cardiologist, pcp and 2 nurses these do not cause symptoms. In fact, they are normal findings. I've seen a pulmonary specialist who said my spirometry test was "normal". He did a bike stress test turns out my oxygen intake I believe at cessation of exercise was only 56%. He said that is mildly low and should not cause shortness of breath. I would not know because I do not know anything about these numbers.
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I call them palpitations because of the fastness of it. So, as soon as I start to move it goes up. And when I'm walking it can get to 120 or sometimes a little more. And its fast. It use to feel like it was beating out of my chest. It sometimes still does that. I notice them because of my fitbit. Both symptoms came on suddenly. I started on a blood thinner and 2 weeks later they started. However prior to that it felt like my heart was "jumping" and I couldn't sleep. Then that stopped. Then did it again for awhile. Then that stopped. Now its fast heart rate. When I sit down it goes down. Sometimes to 59. These symptoms happen on exertion and sometimes when I'm sitting I feel like I have to take a deep breath and can't